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WA police plan to charge Ashton Foley

Ashton Foley was arrested in Victoria after fleeing her family home with her children following intense media speculation on her past.

The whistleblower at the centre of corruption allegations against a West Australian hospital will be extradited to Perth to face extortion charges.

Ashton Foley, whose damning allegations to a WA parliamentary committee against the privately-run Peel Health Campus sparked a government inquiry, appeared yesterday in a Victorian Court and was fined $1000 for breaching a community order.

Major fraud squad detectives from Western Australia travelled to Melbourne on Wednesday to apply for the extradition of Ms Foley.

They will also travel to Bairnsdale where she is expected appear via videolink in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday, charged with demanding property with threats.

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Sergeant Gerry Cassidy said Ms Foley was in the custody of Victorian police and would be charged by WA police.

It will be alleged that she demanded money she was not entitled to from Health Solutions Peel Health Campus, under the threat of releasing documents in her possession to the media.

It is the latest twist in a bizarre saga that has seen Ms Foley praised by a parliamentary committee for her bravery in coming forward with evidence against HSWA - before she admitted she had been imprisoned in the United States for about six weeks in 2008 on fraud and identity theft charges.

Records in the US show Ms Foley, under the alias Michelle Marie Foley, is still wanted in the US on a warrant issued in Georgia in 2011 over theft and fraud charges.

Police in WA were also called in to investigate claims she had falsified information on her application for her job at Peel.

Allegations of a potential past bigamy case have also been levelled at Ms Foley.

She is facing further legal proceedings in the WA Supreme Court, after being sued by HSWA.

She is expected to appear before the Perth Magistrates Court on Monday.

Victorian police arrested her earlier this week at a residential address in Lake Bunga, where she was believed to have been in hiding since fleeing her family home with her children following intense media speculation on her past.

It has been reported that she was put under the order in 2011 for "serious" dishonesty offences and leaving the state to go to WA later that year breached the order.